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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2025

Understanding and overcoming multidrug resistance in cancer.

Minghua Ge, Xuan-Yu Chen, Ping Huang, Joshua S Fleishman, Dong-Hua Yang, Zhuo-Xun Wu, Zun-Fu Ke, Zhe-Sheng Chen

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Minghua Ge *Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Center, Cancer Center, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China. geminghua@hmc.edu.cn.
Xuan-Yu Chen *Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, New York, NY, USA.
Ping HuangZhejiang Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine Research on Head and Neck Cancer, Hangzhou, China.
Joshua S FleishmanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1092-6272
Dong-Hua YangNew York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Zhuo-Xun WuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, New York, NY, USA.
Zun-Fu KeDepartment of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. kezunfu@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
Zhe-Sheng ChenDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, New York, NY, USA. chenz@stjohns.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-097X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer evolution can engender tumours with the ability to resist multiple treatments with distinct chemical structures and mechanisms of action, and this multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype has long been a substantial challenge in cancer therapy. Despite the established benefits of systemic treatments including chemotherapies, molecularly targeted therapies and immunotherapies across various cancers, MDR inevitably occurs at some point during the course of the disease and its treatment in most patients. Since the discovery of MDR in the 1960s, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms has deepened. However, few strategies are currently available to combat MDR in the clinical setting, and approaches to systematically translate knowledge of new MDR mechanisms and treatments from the laboratory into the clinic are lacking. In this Review, we focus on preclinical and clinical advances in understanding MDR, with an emphasis on resistance to chemotherapy and targeted therapy. We also summarize progress made in translating these findings from bench to bedside through the development of potential strategies to overcome MDR and thus improve patient outcomes.

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Antineoplastic AgentsDrug Resistance, MultipleDrug Resistance, NeoplasmNeoplasmsAnimalsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyAntineoplastic Agents

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